Nicole Kidman’s 1-year-old daughter Sunday Rose isn’t one of those celebrity babies who’s always up for a candid photo-op. Nicole has only been photographed with Sunday a handful of times since giving birth to her in July of 2008, and for the most part, Sanday has been pretty covered up. I was hoping Sunday would take after her mom – that we would see a little pale, carrot-top style-icon-in-training. It turns out that Nicole and husband Keith Urban are pretty happy raising Sunday away from the spotlight of New York and Los Angeles, setting up their home base in Nashville.

It was in Nashville that Nicole, Keith and Sunday were photographed chilling out. Keith stopped by their Nashville home base between tour dates – and I would assume that Nicole’s been in Nashville for most of the summer. These are the best pictures I’ve seen of Sunday, and I can see now that she definitely takes after her dad. She’s a cute little brunette, and I don’t see much of Nicole in her sweet little face. She’s still adorable, but I had my heart set on a ginger. Oh, well.

The only thing I’ve heard about or seen of Nicole in the past few months has been her brief appearance on Project Runway’s “All-Star Challenge”. The news of Nicole’s appearance leaked a few days before the premiere, and I had my heart set on something really cool. Unfortunately, Nicole only appeared on the show via some kind of pre-taped thing, where she basically read off a prepared speech to the designers. It sucked. There’s some talk that Nicole would wear the winning “red carpet look” to one of the premieres of Nine, which comes out in November. The winner of the challenge turned out to be Season 2’s runner-up, Daniel Vosovic. I like Daniel, but Korto Momolu’s line was so much prettier – and Nicole would have looked gorgeous in any of her fantastic, more sophisticated dresses. I seriously doubt Nicole will end up wearing the black-and-white cocktail dress Daniel designed. Daniel later told the Los Angeles Times, “I thought it would be phenomenal on Nicole Kidman. We’ll see if we can get her in it!” Good luck with that.

Nicole, Keith and Sunday are shown outside their home in Nashville on 8/18/09. Credit: Fame Pictures